This screen grab from video released to AFP on January 28, 2013 by Australia’s Seven Network and taken on January 27, 2013 shows a toddler being held by rescue personnel as they are winched up to a helicopter after the family was stuck in their vehicle, surrounded by flood waters in the town of Biloela in the Australian state of Queensland. The family zipped their infant son into a waterproof bag to be winched to safety by helicopter as floods surrounded their car at Biloela, west of Bundaberg, with the 14-month-old too small for the airlift harness. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.

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This screen grab from video released to AFP on January 28, 2013 by Australia’s Seven Network and taken on January 27, 2013 shows a family with their infant son stuck in their vehicle by flood waters in the town of Biloela in the Australian state of Queensland. The family zipped their infant son into a waterproof bag to be winched to safety by helicopter as floods surrounded their car at Biloela, west of Bundaberg, with the 14-month-old too small for the airlift harness. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.SEVEN NETWORK
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This screen grab from video released to AFP on January 28, 2013 by Australia’s Seven Network and taken on January 27, 2013 shows a family with their infant son stuck in their vehicle by flood waters in the town of Biloela in the Australian state of Queensland. The family zipped their infant son into a waterproof bag to be winched to safety by helicopter as floods surrounded their car at Biloela, west of Bundaberg, with the 14-month-old too small for the airlift harness. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.SEVEN NETWORK
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This screen grab from video released to AFP on January 28, 2013 by Australia’s Seven Network and taken on January 27, 2013 shows rescue personnel opening a bag containing a toddler after he was winched up to a helicopter in a dramatic rescue when the family was stuck in their vehicle, surrounded by flood waters in the town of Biloela in the Australian state of Queensland. The family zipped their infant son into a waterproof bag to be winched to safety by helicopter as floods surrounded their car at Biloela, west of Bundaberg, with the 14-month-old too small for the airlift harness. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.SEVEN NETWORK
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This screen grab from video released to AFP on January 28, 2013 by Australia’s Network Ten and taken on January 27, 2013 shows a man being winched to safety from floods by helicopter in Biloela in the Australian state of Queensland. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT QUEENSLAND
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This screen grab from video released to AFP on January 28, 2013 by Australia’s Network Ten and taken on January 27, 2013 shows rescue personnel pointing out at floods from a helicopter in the town of Biloela in the Australian state of Queensland. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT QUEENSLAND
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Tony Hall stands in flood waters as he checks his washing on a clothes line in the inner Brisbane suburb of Newmarket on January 28, 2013. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.PATRICK HAMILTON
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This screen grab from video released to AFP on January 28, 2013 by Australia’s Network Ten and taken on January 27, 2013 shows emergency personnel conducting rescue operations from their helicopter over flood waters in Biloela in the Australian state of Queensland. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT QUEENSLAND
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Kura Stainton (L) and Laura Hall (R) walk through flood waters as they carry photographs from their flooded Cullen street home in the inner Brisbane suburb of Newmarket on January 28, 2013. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.PATRICK HAMILTON
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Flood waters race across the Oxenford — Tamborine road on Australia’s Gold Coast on January 28, 2013 as severe floods swept through two states. Three people were dead and dozens plucked from roofs and marooned cars in dramatic air rescues in northeastern Australia on January 28 as severe floods swept through two states, inundating thousands of homes.BRETT FAULKNER
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Roger Barnes rescues a friend’s surfboard from a flooded home in the inner Brisbane suburb of Newmarket on January 28, 2013 as high winds and heavy rains brought by ex-tropical cyclone Oswald have hit the state of Queensland. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.PATRICK HAMILTON
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Peter Wison (L) and Beata Jaremko sit on a bench surrounded by flood waters as the Brisbane River brakes its banks at West End in Brisbane on January 28, 2013. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.PATRICK HAMILTON
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This screen grab from video released to AFP on January 28, 2013 by Australia’s Network Ten and taken on January 27, 2013 shows an aerial view by helicopter of floods in the town of Biloela in the Australian state of Queensland. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT QUEENSLAND
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Tony Hall stands in flood waters as he checks his washing on a clothes line in the inner Brisbane suburb of Newmarket on January 28, 2013. Helicopters plucked dozens of stranded Australians to safety in dramatic rooftop rescues on January 28 as severe floods swept the northeast, killing three people and inundating thousands of homes.PATRICK HAMILTON
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